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In a recent commentary on CNN, by Carl Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, he suggests that we need to support people like “Joe the Plumber”, and provide the climate in which such entrepreneurial ventures can grow and prosper. Although he doesn’t say so directly in his commentary, I suppose this is [...]

William Yuan, from Portland, Oregon, has a better idea.  A recent science project he developed, entitled “A Highly-Efficient 3-Dimensional Nanotube Solar Cell for Visible and UVLight,” William invented a novel solar panel that enables light absorption from visible toultraviolet light. He designed carbon nanotubes to overcome the barriers of electron movement, doubling the light-electricity conversion [...]

In a future with no need for fossil fuels and with the need of renewable energies, solar power seems to be the best option available on the market. In order to be efficient and cost-effective, the sun has to shine all day long and the perfect place for that is the African continent. The [...]

Coal power plants, by utilizing the same turbines used by coal to generate electricity,  can utilize solar to produce 15%-60% of the electricity. Mirrors, called fresnal reflectors capture the sun’s rays and heat water in a large tube. Steam lines deliver the solar energy to the adjacent coal power plant to turn the turbines. 
“There’s a real [...]

A recent article by CNN suggests that Big OIl is at it again, spending huge amounts of money to make sure their record breaking profits stay in tact.  In what may be surprising to some, the most recent figures from the Center for Responsive Politics show that the oil industry gives a relatively small sum to [...]

Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to sell its company-owned gas stations, saying they aren’t profitable enough even with gasoline selling at $4 per gallon.
The 2,220 stations make up about 1/5 of the Exxon and Mobil stations in the United States. The nation’s largest oil company, which earned nearly $41 billion last year, says [...]

As fuel prices climb and people switch to more fuel efficient vehicles, millions of gas guzzling pickups, SUVs, and vans will still be on American roads for many years, even decades. The average age of American vehicles is about 10 years, and quite serviceable vehicles with over 150,000 or even 200,000 miles on their odometers [...]

The words “Peak Oil” aren’t supposed to be in our vocabulary. It’s unAmerican. We’re not supposed to know, or at least verbalize the fact the oil is a finite resource. The “American way” is to smile on in oblivion to the fact, kinda like what many of us grew up with in [...]

FREMONT, Calif. – Lexar Media (NYSE:MU), a leading global provider of memory products for digital media, today announced immediate availability of Crucial 1.5V DDR2 FBDIMM server memory modules. As part of its commitment to the enterprise-computing space, Lexar Media’s new energy-efficient Crucial server memory product line utilizes the industry’s first 1.5V, 1Gb-based components to deliver [...]

Google users in the United States will notice today that we “turned the lights out” on the Google.com homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour. As to why we don’t do this permanently – it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power [...]